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THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE Po Places Wallace Second SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1972 ii rm ixon Jf irst Urioice lexas EDITORIALS By JOE Director, The BELDEN Teui Poll We Could Profit Sen. George McGovern may be the front runner in delegate strength at the Democratic National Convention this week, but he is far from being a popular choice for president among the rank and file in Texas. A statewide survey completed last week by The Texas Poll places Richard Nixon as the number -one candidate with Texas voters at this time, but not a strong one. More surprisingly, Gov. George Wallace ranks a strong second.

McGovern is practically tied for third place with Edward Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey. However, none of this means that, given the nomination, McGovern could not carry Texas, one of the richest plums in electoral votes. In another measurement of "the strongest Democratic candidate for president," McGovern shows up considerably better in Texas, but even among members of his own party his appeal today is about equal to that of Kennedy or Wallace, the survey shows. The more than 1,000 persons interviewed for this Texas Poll were first asked, "At this time, whom would you like to see elected President of the United for self-styled Democrats in the second: All Demos George Wallace Edward Kennedy George McGovern Hubert H.Humphrey Edmund Muskie Undecided Total.

22 27 25 16 5 5 100 25 24 14 5 6 100 Of many groups analyzed, the only one in which McGovern leads as "the strongest Democratic candidate" is persons 18 to 24 years of age. The table below shows how current appeal breaks down by major groups of the total Texas electorate for Nixon and McGovern who has practically been conceded the Democratic nomination already (based on the first question, a free choice for President): Nixon McGovern Democrats 19 13 Republicans 75 2 Independents 42 6 (Too few American and Raza Unida party followers to tabulate separately.) Liberals 14 18 States in the general election in November?" No names were suggested. These are the results among all adults (replies among voters and non-voters are prac tically the same): Richard Nixon George Wallace Edward Kennedy Hubert H. Humphrey George McGovern Edmund Muskie John Connally Others Undecided Total 32 22 12 11 10 2 1 1 9 100 When the Democratic majority in Texas people who call themselves Democrats in the survey are tabulated separately, Wallace assumes the lead as the first choice, with 23 per cent, Nixon is second with 19, Humphrey is third with 17, and Kennedy and McGovern bring up the rear with 14 and 13 per cent respectively. The second question asked was, "If the choice narrowed down to the men listed here, which one would you think would be the strongest Democratic candidate for president?" The results for the entire state are shown on the first column, and competence.

Party interference, even when It succeeds in forcing an inefficient manager to resign or to change his methods, has had unsettling effects among the workers. Professional relationships have been destroyed. Production is suffering. Each side blames the other. Despite all this, local party committees are reported working on ways to intensify their supervision.

Nixon's economic analysts see a basis unsolvable conflict here. They are certain that these difficulties will deepen and that increasing party interference in the details of local factory production will lead to greater inefficiencies, regardless of what brilliant technological breakthroughs Soviet scientists achieve. This will make the Russians increasingly conscious of their arms burden and (if analysis here is correct) of their need for U.S. management and development skills. Growing dependence on the United States should make the Soviet Union more cooperative if U.S.

negotiators are hard nosed, the theory here runs. But the Soviet representatives are going to be tough bargainers, whether talking about arms, economics or political settlements in such places as the Middle East and Asia. The theory here is that the growing Soviet economic problems will not make Russian diplomats easier to negotiate with. Talks that should take two years may take five. But the Soviet difficulties may have agreements more likely in the end, if we argue from military and political strength as well as economic.

'What Makes You Think You Can Run the 'The Greek' Likes Church or Mills as McGovern's Mate By JACK ANDERSON unrtd Fwturt Inc. President NLxon'i aides count on the unfortunate results of Leonid Brezhnev's latest economic experiments to push the Soviet Union into greater accommodation with the United States these next five years. If these current boggles become increasingly serious, and Nixon's experts predict they will, Brezhnev's economic problems could be a strong force for an effective follow-on agreement covering all major strategic arms and hopefully calling for cutbacks as well as ceilings. Brezhnev's immediate problems began as the result of a decision be made about two years ago, in part to solidify his position as first secretary through increasing party control over the economy and in part to remedy the growing productivity problems that plague Soviet industry, agriculture and mining. The Communist party has always been supreme in over-all economic direction setting quotas, prices and priorities.

This has been bad enough for economic efficiency. Brezhnev has gone a step further, given the party committees in each local factory strong direct say in day-today operations. The word now coming out of the Soviet Union is that this shift is not working well. Factory managers complain their authority is being undermined. They strnuously object to party interference in the selection of foremen, superintendents and department heads, in work assignments and in training methods.

Party workers in each plant find themselves required to police their superiors on technical matters outside their More yets If war can be said to have fringe benefits, certainly among the most valuable to the individuals involved and to the national welfare to which they contribute have been educational aid programs for veterans. Under various "GI bills" dating back to World War II, millions of former servicemen have acquired educations they otherwise could not have afforded, or only with greatest difficulty. In the Vietnam era, almost 40 per cent of veterans are taking advantage of educational programs. Nevertheless, the Veterans Administration is concerned because those who could most benefit from educational aid, the economically and socially THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE Established May 8. 1846 Published every morning except Dec.

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Foreign rates furnished on request. Mail sub-scriptions payable in advance. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for republication of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP news dispatches 'Remember, You Read 44 4, 8: '16 9'- 18 7 7 2 31 32 33 Historically, McGovern stands to gain considerable strength in Texas simply by virtue of the nomination. That, coupled with Nixon's relatively weak position as revealed by the survey, and with five months of campaigning left, leaves the Democrats quite viable in Texas even with the presently unpopular Senator, McGovern as the nominee. The survey reported above is based on face-to-face interviews with a representative cross section of 1,031 persons 18 or older.

Eighty-seven Texas Poll interviewers talked to this sampling'; of people between June 21 and July 1 so the '1 sentiments expressed reflect both the attempted assassination of Gov. Wallace and the impact of the various primaries held in other states which have resulted in' McGovern '8 emergence as the most likely Democratic candidate. Washington's Sen. Henry Jackson), 5 to 2. McGovern (with Florida's Gov.

Reubin; Askew, Illinois' Sen. Adlai Stevenson South Carolina's Sen. Ernest Hollings or North Carolina's ex -Gov. Terry Sanford), 8tol. Humphrey-McGovern, 8 to 1.

Kennedy-Mills, 10 to 1. Muskie-McGovern, 20 to 1. Kennedy (with Hollings, Sanford or Georgia's Gov. Jimmy Carter), JO to 1. Humphrey-Jackson, 30 to 1.

Muskie (with Jackson or Minnesota's. Sen. Walter Mondale), 30 to 1. McGovern (with Kennedy, Carter, Alabama's Gov. George Wallace, Indiana's Sen.

Birch Bayh, or consumer advocate Ralph Nader) 50 to 1. McGovern (with Humphrey, Iowa's Sen. Harold Hughes, Louisiana's Gov. Edwin Edwards, or Brooklyn's congresswoman Shirley Chisholm), 100 to 1. Muskie (with Wallace, Hughes, Harris or Alaska's Sen.

Mike Gravel), 100 to 1. Any other dark horse combination, in Jimmy's book, would be a 50-to-l shot. OPEN CONVENTION Sen. George McGovern is pondering whether to throw the vice presidential nomination wide open if he is nominated for president. Most of his political managers such veteran; professionals as Frank Mankiewicz, Myer Feldman, Fred Dutton and Ted Van Dyck are opposed.

But young idealists in the McGovern camp are urging him to let the Democratic convention choose the run-, ning mate for the first time since the stormy 1958 convention in Chicago. Then, with the party in disarray, Adlai Stevenson let the delegates choose. They picked the late Sen. Estes Kefauver over his dashing rival. Sen.

John F. Kennedy. The move helped unify the party, but didn't keep Stevenson from being swamped by Dwight Eisenhower. With party unity again in McGovern spoke to Mankiewiet recently about following Stevenson's example. The two men were driving home from a Washington TV filming.

The air conditioning in McGovern's car had broken down, and they sweltered as their Secret Service chauffeur eased them through Washington's steamy streets. Mankiewicz brought up the subject of an open convention. McCovern, musing a moment, said: "Well, there's got to be a way to do something about unity." Then, the senator laughed and added: "On the other band, throwing It open might tear the party apart" The two men drove on in silence for a moment, but the vice presidency still pricked McGovern's mind. He turned to Mankiewicz and said: "Listen, I'm still thinking about a nonpolitkal guy for rice president. "It seems to me that the vice presidency shouldnt be limited to politicians.

There art college presidents, labor union leaders, businessmen, doctors. We could go outside elected politics. One of them might fit the bill." Mankiewicz, who is having a enough time keeping delegates in line much less his candidate, smiled but gave McGovern no encouragement "It's an interesting Idea," he said. "The way things are now, it might fit the mood." DEMOCRATIC DOINGS Radical Threat The young radicals in Miami are threatening to make Chicago four years ago look like a Sunday School service if their hero, George McGovern, is 1 denied the Democratic nomination. The veteran radical Abby Hoffman, founder of the Yippies, (old us about bis Miami: convention battle plans.

Hoffman says be hopes to assemble an army of $00,000 protestors outside the Miami convention hall. They will go Into fully cry, he says, if -J the party regulars block McGovern. POWER Protest Senator George McGovern's supporters art planning dramatic press conference In Miami. Thirty relatives of POWs missing in Vietnam will publicly lint up behind his nomination. Three of them are POW wives who are also alternates or delegates to the convention and will pledge their votes to the senator.

I Conservatives Anglo Americans Mexican Americans Blacks 18 to 24 25 to 34 35 to 49 50 or older 'Trades' Were Made! By STUART LONG MIAMI Jimmy the Greek, the nation's No. 1 oddsmaker, favors George McGovern to win the Democratic presidential nomination, with either Idaho's Sen. Frank Church or Arkansas' Rep. Wilbur Mills as his running mate. The Las Vegas oddsmaker who prepares bis political odds exclusively for us, rates a Mc-Govern-Church or McGovern-Mills ticket evenly as an 8-to-5 favorite.

Hubert Humphrey, with McGovern as his running mate, is given only an 8-to-l chance. And Ted Kennedy, with Mills Anderson in the second spot, is a 10-to-l bet. Like most other experts, Jimmy the Greek in his first ratings for us 11 months ago made Sen. Ed Muskie a l-to-2 favorite to win the nomination. Jimmy rated McGovern's chances as remote.

But over the months, the amazing Greek has been far ahead of the pundits and pollsters in detecting the voting trends. He called the key Florida, Wisconsin, Ohio and California primaries almost on the nose. He was alone in forecasting, correctly, that Humphrey would come within five per cent of upsetting the favored McGovern in California. Now here are Jimmy's odds on the eve of the Democratic convention: McGovern (with Church or Mills) 8 to S. McGovern (with Muskie or "The $10,000 a year per patient is just out of line," Sen.

Aikin insisted. Sen. A. Schwartz of Galveston also insisted that it would not work. But when Lieut.

Gov. Ben Barnes, not a conferee, but a believer in the idea that Texas should make an effort to find a way to cure heroin addicts, insisted, Aikin snd Schwartz agreed to give the youth drug program $298,000 for its first year of operation. Creighton still opposed, but the 'House conferees agreed. "TheyH discover It wont work," Schwartz said, "and then wQ use these facilities for mental retardation." But despite those doubts, the effort to find a way to cure young heroin addicts will have a "pilot It may not work because the idea is wrong, or it may not work because they got a fourth a much money as they need. But because Sen.

Jack Hightower of Vernon, not a conferee, refused to back down, It will at least be tried out in some fashion. The other big deal which cam out the open because of open meetings of the conferees was on college pay increases. The Senate had voted a 18 per cent raise for classified employes of the universities. The House had voted $.4 per cent for both staff members and faculty. The conferees seemed to be at a stalemate.

Aikin Insisted that staff people had not had the same raise other state employes have had the last three years, but that most faculty members had received pay raises last year. Finally, Rep. Finck asked for a recess "so I can talk with my folks." They left the room briefly, and when they came back Finck announced: "Well accept the $9,000,000 for staff If youU agree to $2,000,000 for faculty." The $9,000,000 was the 1.1 per cent for staff members. The $2,000,000 was about II per cent for faculty members. The three senators present agreed, and that was the way legislative policy was made.

to School disadvantaged veterans, are passing up the opportunity. According to Defense Department statistics, in 1971 almost 45 per cent of returning servicemen with some previous college experience returned to school. Only 13.4 per cent at the high school level chose to go on with VA aid. There is also a racial coloring to the figures. Of the high school graduates, 14 per cent of white veterans enrolled in college programs, but only 9.4 per cent of the black returnees did.

The VA, in cooperation with federal agencies and other organizations, including churches, is trying to correct the imbalance through an information program. A project financed by the Office of Economic Opportunity and operated by the National League of Cities and the Conference of Mayors is seeking out new veterans in low-income areas of a number of major cities, getting the word around of the opportunities open to them and encouraging many more of them to complete or continue their educations. Until they do, the GI educational programs will be nowhere near as valuable as they could be. Bible Verse Woe to those who call evD good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for tweet and sweet for bitter. Isaiah 20.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil. Robert Southey, English poet. It Here' By ART BICHwALD WMhmQton Potl Company nominated McGovern, Humphrey, Wallace, Chisholm, Jackson and Muskie. There have been no demonstrations fx the candidates in the hall because everyone is afraid if he gets up and marches they wont let him back in his section again. On the first ballot McGovern picked up 1,234 votes, well shy of the 1,509 he needed.

The rest were split between the other candidates with the uncommitted refusing to vote for anyone. The second and third ballot found no one budging. By the tenth ballot of Wednesday's all-night session, the convention wm hopelessly deadlocked. The state delegations caucused rignt on the floor, trying to get people to change their minds. But it was impossible.

On NBC, John Chancellor and David Brink ley became short-tempered and refused to talk to each other. Howard K. Smith and Harry Reasoner on ABC were also not speaking to each other, and on CBS, Walter Cronkite wasn't talking to himself. It was obvious to everyone in and out of the convention ball that a compromise candidate had to be found one who had not already been nominated. But who? The Democratic Party leaders Call a recess behind the podium.

They argue and thrash it out for several hours. I Scenario for the Convention A Revelation in Austin How the AUSTIN Having virtually all of the Senate-House conference comhrittee sessions out in the public was really a revelation. Capitol reporters had known, of course, that trades were made, but they did not really know, nor were they able to report, just what they were. The only man whose name is proposed as the compromise candidate is a very famous, but controversial, figure on the American scene. He hat announced many times that be is not a candidate for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency, and has said under no conditions would he accept a draft Yet, the leaders argue be is the one person who can save the party.

This young man, whose name bad been associated with a very embarrassing Incident, is a household word now. Because of the deadlock at the convention, he is the only one who can possibly beat Nixon in November. The compromise candidate is not at the convention. He has purposely stayed away so people would believe he was not interested in the nomination. O'Brien puts in a call to him.

Everyone, in turn, gets on the phone and tells him be has to be the candidate. The compromise candidate speaks to George McGovern, Humphrey, Muskie and Wallace. They urge him to run. The candidate finally agrees to a draft and uyi he will take the next plane to Miami. And that's bow Bobby Fischer, the VS.

chess champion, became the Democratic presidential nominee for 1871 AOveut Newt Mrvm This time, with Sen. A. M. Aikin Jr. of Paris and Rep.

Bill Finck of San Antonio presiding over the two five-man committees, those "trades" were out in the open. One of the big ones involved the House proposal worked out by Rep. Finck to block the construction of an 11-story State Highway Department office building at 11th and Congress Avenue in Austin, just south of the Capitol and just east of the Governor's Mansion. The House had struck out the $4,000,000 appropriation to carry on the state inspection program on the places which slaughter and dress livestock. When the Senate conferees Insisted on keeping the meat inspection program, on the theory that if the state walks away from tougher federal inspections will take over under the federal law, Rep.

Finck proposed the "The House will go slong with the meat inspection deal well agree to be bulldozed by the Senate if youU take the highway building proposal," Finck said. Sen. Aikin, who had been almost speechless over the "I don't know what to call it" deal for the block of land already bought by the Highway Department to become a state park agreed to the trade. And that was that. Three major policy decisions Involving three state agencies bad been made, with three senators and fire representatives making the decision.

Things got a little stickier when they came up to the dream of some legislators last year a heroin treatment center at Vernon to provide new ways of breaking the heroin habits of 350 young drug users from 14 to 21. The money was appropriated and theVernon Center is under construction. Sen. Tom Creighton of Mineral Wells, a former district attorney and a member of the conference committee, was dead set against the funding of $1,014,428 for the effort to set up new idea in heroin cure. "You cant cure a heroin addict," Creighton insisted.

WASHINGTON Everyone has his own scenario for this week's Democratic National Convention. The way things have been going with the party, one scenario has as much validity as the next. This is the one that I have written and if it comes true, remember, you read iHrre. It is the fourth day i of th convention and i the Democrats have been unable to decide oa a presidential i candidate. The fight to seat delegations has taken up three days and those i people who were ruled Ineligible havej mJ.

mA tVtu lift their seats to those oucnwaw who were officially designated as delegates to the convention. Almost every statt delegation has two people sitting La every chair. No one dares leave the floor for fear that someone will grab bis seal When someone tries to speak be is hooted down by the opposition faction. Larry O'Brien, the chairman of the part, has the podium ringed with the National Guard so do one can grab the microphone. The nomination speeches have not been heard, but the candidates have been.